Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1887, Page 10

MINDS MELLOW AND MOODY. Half Hours With the Melancholy Wits of the Country, THE TOO FRESH TOBOGGANER. The Widow and the Widower on a Narrow Road—Poems on Passion and Bonnets—A Select Ase sortment of Smiles, The Too F'resh Tobogganer, From the Montreal Star, [He calleth for his lady love,] The lanterns are shining, my love, my dove, Away to the siide let's be jogging For a ride Lam pining, my ilove, my love, And I've brought out my little toboggan : 80 put on your bianket coat quick as may be, And come to the slide and tobozgan with me, Come, ride on my little toboggan. ‘The north wind is blowing, my love,my dove. 1t is splendid tobogganing weathe 8o let us be going, my dove, iy lov And slide and (¢ n together. ' Oh, hasten my peerl ne, off let ns jog, And dash down the slide on my littie” tobo Dash down on my little tobogean \ey sally forth and reach the slide, At last off wo're whizzing, my love, my dove, And down the steep slide we are dashing: Hear the air pass us izzingmy dove,my love, As ¢ crashing, We're 1 a!weare there— But where's my toboggan, and where are vou, dear? Where's my love and my little toboggan? {Emerges from snow heap and gazes wildly around. | What can havo oceurred, my love, my dove, With something I must have collided ; ve been flurtied, my dove, my love, 18t have unskilfully guided, y vehicle made from the bark of a log, My little tobowian, my little tobog— But where the detice is my toboggan? AlInow Lespy you, my love, my dove, But who in thé mischiel’s that feller Who walks so close by you,my dove.ny love? It's that brute of a clérk—thiat teller. Ah! reme unhappy ! now homeward 1'11 For niy Tove 1 have lost, and my little tobog: Vés, all smashed is my littie toboggan. MORATA Young fellows give ear; ere you goto the slido With your girl, learn to steer, for a duffer No lady can caré for, and if you ecan’t guide Your toboggan, you'll cortainly sufe As my hero above, whose unskillf cost Him the loss of his” girl, and " beside lier he 05t— He lost, ah! his little toboggan. After They Found Out. Detroit Free Press: A Detroiter who was driving out on the Holden road the other day came to a spot where the snow had badly drifted on each side of thy track just as a woman driving a horse and “pung’ entered the other end of the cut. As both held to the road their horses s00n came head on and stopped. “Why didn't you turn out?’ shouted the man, Wiy didn’t you?"" replied the woman, “I've got seven miles to drive, but Il L winter before I'li turn out!” And 1've got five dozen eggs he and I'll let them f) 5 hard as ros before I'tl give an inch!” The man dropped the lines, lighted a cigar and leancd back on his_seat. The woman dropped her lines, lighted her pipe and wrapped the old’ buflalo robe around her feet. Thus they sat for eight minutes, when the man grew impatient and called “What's the price of hogs out your way' “Oh, yowve got all the pork you want in your'sleigh!” she answer “I'm glad’ Pm a widow “P'm glad I'm a widde SEhE Are yon a widow Sartin, and [ own 2 cres of the best land in Greenficld. So you are a widower?’ “Yes'm, Madam, pray excuse me. T1L cheerfully turn out. “Oh, don’t mention it. I'm perfectly willing to haul into the snowbank.” “ANT madam, allow me to hope that you will overlook my''— “Oh, certainly. me weather, but rather cold, Good by.” “Good_ by, madam. UHope you a ssfe Journey.” Boarding House Grammar. ‘The nice, new dairy butter, dircet from the creamery, which the landlady had told them about, w on the table, and Chumpley tried it. Then he peered under the plate and all ubout it for & moment or two. “Mr. Chumpley,” smd the landlady, very severely, “will you please narse the butter this way?»" “1 should prefer nswered Chumpley, in lus meekest tones, “to decline it in my own wa Poems of Passion, Sty Lowis Wasp, O, the wild, wild night when the tempest ronrs And the sea-birds sereech on high! And the breakers beat on th sounding shores And echo along the sky! When the jimjam bird and the flamaloo Hear the'sudden slough of the sea, I harness a whale and drive to you, And I hold you on my knee'! I harness a whale of the whaleful kind, And my cart rides on coral wheels, And Iskim the brine, aud the sighing wind Around and above me reels; O, the sad, sad sea and the wide, white whale Secis ever 1o slow for me! But if Lmust ride on a splintered rail, My darling, L go to thee! O, the whale is slow and the wheels need oil, And the shark express Kot And they leave the for the sandy soil, And the foam for the darkened sky And my whilo s old and his tweth are gone, And hie's Jost his way in the sea, But if I must put my eart in My darling, 1 10 thee ! arncd Sister, an Francisco Post witness)—You have be friend of the family Yes.'"" ““You haye seen the defendant here ill use his—-" He Lawyer—1I object. The question is imprope Tho Court-—~Objoction sustained Lady Lawyer—Haven't you scen the defendant—— He Lawyer- Ibjee; same ground. The Court—Sume ruli ady Lawyer-——Well, then, what I want to know is hasn’t his wife, my client, been shamefully ill He Lawyer—Ibjec Court—Jeetion stained ady Lawyer-—Please state, then whut you know about the cruelty of the man awyer—Ihjee. sme ruling, Ask the witness, n, to tell what he knows, ly Lawyer—Well, that's what I'm doing! Now, sir. tell us what you know. Witness—About what? i ady Lawyer—Why, about the cru o Lawyer—Ibjoe ‘T'he Court—Jection stained. No more ady Lawyer—Very well, Now, then, s, tell us what you know Ask e questions and DIl Answ em. Lady Lawyer—Why, just tell us how you have seen him abuse—Oh, d me, 1 orgot. Well, tell us—ON, Judge (break- fng down in tears), he knows perfectly I what I want him to say! he Court—Recess for half an hour. Our learned sister can employ the time an commposing herself. Playing Lunatic Asyluw in the Parlor The small boy who had -been watching Jhrough a stovepipe hale the anties of a Joving couple, ran down to the kitchen in high glee fo describe the whole pro eoeding to his little sister. _““Oh, it's such fun, ' said he, in conelu- sion “Whatis such fun?" asked his mother, wh ust entered. ¥ lay lunatic asylum like 1" Mr. Snips are doing in A Now College Degree. A pompou#® gentleman of this city was cently approached by a friend who greeted him with outstretehed hand and a pleasing smile “Let me congratulate you,' he eried; “your college has given you a degr “How—what!" siid ‘the other. ‘I haven't seen anything of it. What is i “They have made yon an L. G. G." *No, really, have they? An L. G.G Let me sce, that “Let “er go, Gallagher.' _They haven't spoken to cach other since, A Supplication to Bonnets, Stand not upon the order of your going off, but go off at once, Each bonnet is a love and love is kind, And at our plea naught that is kind will seoff, Hence we beseech you, we who sit bel,! 1— O, bontiets, et you down, come off,”coine off | ‘The deep damnation of a taking off Moved Shakespeare’s wrath; but now the public rage *Gainst the daination of your staying on, Ye loves of bonnets that shut out the stage! 0 fall to beauty’s lap—in cloak room stay— Be tloored —be tabled—take a bed—a eliair— Or like the flowers sang by Thomas Gra Waste your tail sweetness on thie desert air! Let Dundee bonnie, if she feel that way, “Up with the bonnets™ sing—we shall not frown If but at coneert, opera and play All otlier bonnets will but sweetly down ! "The prayer of Ajax fits our lips aflame, L Ashigh vour blooming barricades do soar, From the old hero rang the fieree exclaim “Gilve me to see and Ajax asks no mor. The Widow's Mortgages, Wall Street ws: “Let's see,” he mused, as he softly pulled at his ear, “your name is Johnson, 1sn't it?” “Yos, sir.” “You ms d a widow over at Turkey Bend who had $20,000 in mortgages? “Imarried a widder.” “And the mortgage “Were on the widder’s property, gosh ng it; P'mup here now to see if false teeth isa ground for divore Paln “Will you favor me with your hand?” he said softl, “*Oh, Georga he exclaimed, blushing becomingly; *‘this is so sudden. Really, I hardly know what to say.” L am very deeply in ted in palm- istry, you kinow,"" lic explained. CANd he never could understand why she left the room with such a display of temper, There She Had Him. e hadn’t quite come up to her stand- ard and she refused his escort to the pic- nic e swid: 'hy, you're as full of airs as a hand- organ fo-day.” Maybe ," she tossed . “Any- how Idon’t go with a crank 3 The Use ot High Bonnets. 2o Rambler: Manager: Going to ool house, John? 1id not. Manag 3 That's bad! Com- pany ne s good work to a poor house, and all the critics will be there, Vell, put ali the women who come for in the front row What for? with a double pur empty seats from iy, and the company from the alms of Faro. Chicago He: “Tdon't pla very much,” said a Clark str “but faro—that’s where T hv y out west one time, and they had little snap ro game running. 1w flat broke. Finally I'said to the d 3 will you take ke anything,” says ho. “I put a silk umbrella on th turn out of the box and two showed up--asplit. The dealer 1 r cked o smile, but taking in my umbrell, reachied over and puta parasol on the ace "’ The Height of Fashion, Lo! the POOE Woman whose unbalanced mind inakes bor werr it 1ike this to torse mankind who tries to It s camid, which callsa bt man's “neadstroog this hat's great must surely er yiciaing pate, She aded, extingiish this hat. Perhnps siio wears this fun- nel wo ubhor t 100k up to b Lif her head she w higzh ns this ure vory pity lier who needs a lofty hat 1Tt hor hend which ¢ fhat. " Without this hat we ean't hrough her quite, but with it 8ho's more puzzling=—and a*frizht Alus, alas! wemen who foof the bilis kiow Wwomens's hats come > hizh ' like other iils,but when they're hich s (his wo've ot to strike,un= tilthey “shoot the nat’ we so disiike, He Was Qualified. Chieago Rambler: “Well, s, re marked the Kansus apothecary to the applicant tor a position, “*what have you to say for yourself* Can you mix pre- seriptions?™ “No, sir,”” was the prompt repiy, “*but Utended a cigar store for two years and worked for s while o @ wholusile liquor louse,'! “Well, vou'll do. You ) relieve me of about nine-tenths of my work.” He Pays License on a Dog. Detroit kree Press: I like to ask if dere vhas some license to keey inquirer Mr. Dunder, as he earcfully tip toeddin the presence of Sergeant Randull yesterday. *Yes, sir, there i “Who gets him “You have to go up stairs to the office of the city ¢ “Doan’ somepody come to me afte hiv “No, sir.” "hell, dot vhas eurious, t week Shake goes oudt mit Mount Glemens t see lus” aunt, und he prings him home dog. Me keep him tied 0op mit der pack yard, und he vhas home only one day When o man walks into my b says vhas 1 Carl Dundery I>\ i right, He liko to getdot lic Der regular price v #1, but_he make 1t seex shillings, pecause it vhas hardt times.” “And you paigs" “Vhell, I doun’ like to haf dot dog kilt, you seet Eaferypody says he vhas sooch a dog ash shinelts some tiger or lion two miles avhay, Next day a stran- ger comes in with o simall pook in his hand, und a peneil er his . Vhas I rl Dunder. 1 vhas. All ht. He iike to get ot license on Shake's dog. 1£ 1 paid iim to somepody else dot vhas nothings mit him, He vhas a friend to Shake, howefer, und he makes 1t feefty cents.” “And you paid that" “Vhell, sergeant, dot vhas a good dog. 1f some burglars vhas a -mile away ho howls und wakes us.-oop und saves us $2,000. Dis morning & stranger comes it He haf some badge-on. Vhas I Carl Dunder? Tvhas. He likesto get dot! conse for Shake's dog. If 1 pay some- pody else I vhas a fool. Nopody can col- Ject dot license onless he haf dot badge on, Being as 1 vhas swindled he make it 25 conts. 5 “And you were fool enough to pay? “hell, sergeant, T pays taxes in two wards, und ['vhas headquarters for cam paign’ clubs. Dot dog yvhas great on ‘coons’ und elephants, Vhas it some shwindle on me “Certainly it w You ought to be sent to an ayslum! 3 ‘Sergeant, look 1 und doan you forget him v oing _home, Somepody vhill come in. Vhas 1 Carl Dunder? I vhas, Al ri k shall shumyp on dot | s a8 row on an elophant ¢ Wk him in two und drag him aroundt und bang his headt mit dem floor until der coro Sher finds only one ear und a shirt button | Id an inquest on! Good pye After s in ghall come und see me some times, for I vhas an honest man who has to defend my family OALIFORNIAN SKETOHES. All Ei ntc d in at least three things in tue United States; in Niagara because of its water; in Salt Lake City because of ist Mormons, and in Culifornia beeause of its gold. At this moment two leading reviews of the old world are entertaining their readers with Californian sketehes, Herr K. Reyer in the Deutsche Rundschau of Berlin, d M. de Varigny in the Revue des Deux- Mondes of Paris, are depicting in a most entertaining manner scenes on the Pa citic slope. The December number of the G magazine contains three pictur forma life. In the first, Herr 1 a detailed and instruetive desel the hydraulic gold washing of county, “one of the grandest mechanical ¢ ions of recent years.” He then dwells on the stru, between tie miners and farmers,and how the former had the upper hand duor ing nearly a whole generation, but how the latter finally went before the courts and asked that their fields be protected a nst the damage oceasioned by the mining interestsof the mountainons re gions. . Herr Reyer examines the proposi tion of Mr. Hall;the engineer, who adve- tes the constraction of dams in the val- s which will retain the sand dischargs onto the farming lands through the gold washing process. But the German writer takes ground against thisplan, He thinks at these dams willofier only tempo ief, and believes that it will require large sums of money to keep them in re pair. He proposes the leyyi tuxon the faimers and the 4 the negotiation of a spe an, wh money is then to be spentin improving the river beds. He wounld nexv hmit the amount of washing to the point where the streams would be abl, y ofl’ naturally the sand thrown into them. By this means Herr Re 0 that the two mterests could be conciliated,and the miners in the mountains and the farmers in the lowlands be on friendly terms again, Terr Reyer then takes un the period when gold was discovercd in -Californis and dwells on the development of minin, int s in the Sierras. During his wan- derings about in_tho regions, he came to the works on Mill creek where e met with thre remarkable cimens of “pioneers of civilization,” as he calls them, He says that he' spent sceveral agreeable days with them and thus got an insizht int 'ir modes of life. One of his hosts gave him this picture of their man is contented in the sume place where he was born, after having led a humdrum exist- devoid of all ) ent. Here, on the contrary, a healthy discontent r. We are striving after influene wealth, not simply to enj but beeause this strugg us. We could not endur hre activity of civilization, To-day we are up, tosinorrow we are down, and the full- ing is as exciting ns the rising. Further on, the author r his ex- cursion to the mountain ci Bodie, which he deseribes as being now an in- signiticent pi ¢ hundred 1n- habitants, after havin most flourishin old interests of Bodi the most reckless man and spent them the next, In 1877, according to our German authority, the Bodie mines v quoted on the stoek exchange for months at some two millions of dollars, But their value foll as rapidly as it had risen, and in 1883 g y all thy stock for less than , 000, Rever then goes on to say: ° other rich mines shrik up in Ameri in this same way, which circumstanc nnot be too severcly blamed and slored. Mines like those of Bodie havy n prolitable for a season, and they might have been made to yreld even more if they had been properly But the fabulons dividends that d inyite compe- tition, and enormously exvensive enter- prises ave undertaken, which swamp the companies and kill the mine. Such great outlays would never be made if poople 2 not worked up to a fever-heat of ex pectation by the tremendous dividends paid by thisor that mimng company. But itis the stock speculators who gain by this system at the expense of the mines themselyes, As long as this continues mining interests will sufter. Herr i thinks that the state ought to intervene and protect the mines by putting a cheek on these stock speculations, but he con- sidors it to hope that the Americy will ever accept an economic me which in any way limits his personal liberty o . A BEAR ON A WALKING BEAM. One of the Passengers Brought from Aluska hy a Government ¥essel, Portland Oregonian: When the govern- me tender Manzanita re. turned from her Alaskan voyage, she brought one more passenger than she started with, The passenger was a little black bear cub Sallie, which actually d her way to the hearts of all on bourd. Being istantly with the men and at the same time being allowed at will all over the vessel, she very quickly and gentle a Kitten, and s pluyful. The one place s was notallowed was the engine room, nd this not because the ehief did not like her, but because he was afraid she ht get hurt, Fhe other ¢ Sallie was missed” at dinner time, and vne of the men volunteered to 1 her, when, after a long search, she was found perched on the walking beam of the engine, which wus in motion, There she clung, and at y movement of the great beam she wais raised to within six inches of the ceiling.und her little fut body compressed to a corresponding thinness, but she never made a whimper; too mueh fright cned to jump off, and knowing 1if sh made & noise she 'would be whipp clun Itery tting breath, and the next moment losing it in a rather violent manne I'he moment she was safe in the man’s arms she hugged him tight, and began to squeal and wake a tremendous row, be haviog in this mauner like others of her sex. Atong the many tricks she plays is onc of stealing quietly up to the cabin door, raising on her hind feet, giving the door a sound whack with one of her paws, and, grabbing the knob, almost shake the door from its hinges; the sec ond she hears a footstep uway she goes seawpering aft. e A distressing cough way be allevigted and sore throat, hoarseness and bronchal affections promptly cured by a few doses of Dr.J. H. McLean's Tar Wine Lung Balm. 25 cents a bottle. PERSONAL TRAITS OF VANITY | of Great Men and | SCOTCH PHRASE “UNCO GUDE" Justified in All Ages—Special Conceits Praise of ‘onsciousness, Nothing is more inter weakness of the strong Men gaze with «d by the indi tions of a connmon humanity ably true th their faults quite as mueh as for their vir- tracts more affection shington is rov ican, but other Am rs are always than Draco 10 other Amer have been more in. It isinstantly sug | cuse given by the sted in the ex Athenian for his preju- e was tired of d, too, and Lhe Scoteh phrase about the “unco gade™ finds justifi ptation it mcaleates the wis mankind by conformity The majority s of aman being much better AyIng puts it, 11 this is aside trom our present pur- weakness with re now dealing is self-concet, Justin Morrill, the self-consciousness. i 'se, that there are diverse rthat self-conscious- There is the weakness that we ¢ sle and the wes ay be popular not only in spite of, but 4 the first; they a popular by the lust. vicw, Mr. Morrill's queer book may at icst evoke in most readers a kind of de- They will naturally say earth cannot expression of self-love how is it to be with common mort The case is, however, not so de: as it seems; for, apart from the di j noted as between i in every-day Dife, be distinguished and and arrogant, cts of listory rise like monu- ments to remind and reassure us. If there have been Napoleons, there have been But let us put toge rkable bits of il's pages of her some of the most rem: r corded in Mr. lected the following SPECIAL CONCEITS OF Napoleon ti marshals hand trom an upper shelf with am higher than ligher,” responded N “In my council,” hi end we have reat--One of Napoleon's I to the emperor said another time, ssed of mueh more always de- clogquence t : simple. argiiient— feated them by thi two and (wo m s 11,what have [ doy ternich repoi the weak men who accuse the strong of sters songht to their velationship N “One would pretentions, n from our f; honors as duc t we had inherited Louis Nupolcon Miculty dissunded from tak- ing the command of the F rimesn war, - At Plombieres he said ¢ are but three men m all Kuropey is myself, the second is you third is one whose name [Bismarck, no doabt] Twill not mention.” Dauiel Webster,the o the American constitution, was, in gen- al, too well poised to show van he might feel. to his father, prompting w 1s something b clerk of court expounder of hin me that tells me the er for me than My mind is mude u Sion, being in court, he d Camden’s the judge and owned it, but added our honor, dictum of L He turned to I'nomas Jeflerson calmly observed (of persons interested in the study of legisla- hey will flnd id most important laws of «d by myself and tion and the that day were prep: dchielly by my efforts, s and” faithful soconds, but | ¢ who would noi have t Lord Byron, accordi angrily rewr g to Leigh Hunt, | 1 box of pills morning und found myself fame aw like the tger, ; 1 o grumbling back to but if Tdoititis crushing.” On another occasion he wre M \ture his vocation i will do something or the time and fortune permitting COSMOZONY OF cred the world, will puzzle the ges." Itis believed ¢ nulitary sucecss angd becorie king of Gre ” philosonhers ARET FULLEL markable woman wi d (when quite young), happily the intelleets of this | 1none compared to my consolution that an “I have now met al alish woman, F said things almos man had his share of pri sometimes the pride that when he says ' The author ha pes hunility brethren witl ¢ m,he must not be 2 world, as Mr t differently Onee Johns out at a club with | ress of Russin has ordered t 11l be read on th of the Wolg fame would extend vis further eople of Am he grew impatient and said poe shly, ““There are places where 1 also am ad- mired." Dr. Johnson, who, like most monologists, hated to hear other people converse, said of Goldsmith, it will be remembered, that he wrote like an angel and ked like poor Poll, It is one of the odde ong our ancedotes of egot in high pl hat a man <o uncommonly ugly as Goldsmith, should have piqued himself as described on his personal ap pearance WILLIAM CHARLES MACKEADY Actors are of course, altho )y more than singers, among the vaincst of men Ma Ly, actually wrote of his own playing of “Macbeth,” that it wus a nobie piece of art Edwin Forrest,the American tragedian, was more wary of self-p Here, how: ever, isan anecdote not given by Mr. Mor rill, and_which we have never seen in print. Some sycophant said to him | “Why, Forrest,” you're not an_actor- you're an institution,” Forrest liked at times to reveat the pleasant saying. Whatever else may be the lesson cone veyed by these interesting ext ts they certainly enforce o valuable lesson of wodesty. The lesson is needed by nine out of ten of us. A little reflection will bring home to the most sensible men and wowen the teath that they habitually sin, some more, of course, some less, way of potty vanity, hat reflection will as certainly convinee such persons t they not only offend others, but in- fliet o grave injury upon themselyes by such an exhibition. For our self-love ever wounds the self-love of others, and vanity is the dry-rot of the soul. A suggestion’or two to those who so farr znize the mischief indicated as to > willing to make an effort to avoid it here 1s not out of place. People are al- wiys in greatest danger of commtting sins of vanity in their own familics or among others generally wio are depend entupon them, This for reasons almost too palpable to repeat. The sinners know their hearers must submit to their ego- tism, and habit leads alwavs to increased indulgence, We may add that a man muy do well to distrust himself who falls into the way of prefacin speech by saying, ty apart, T think so ani Without meaning to be egotisti my opinion 1s," ete. . Undeniably there is peril that in avoid ing Seylla ‘we stumble on Charybdis. Shall a'man who knows lis own powers, is conscious of his strong grasp of u given subjeet, feels that he has gone through the mill of a hard experience, put his sundle under abushel and hold his peace? We say no; but even a just sclf-assertion may be modestly put and so gain the true end of all human tion, which is, through all the grinds and attritions and qualification of eircumstances, to do more goodsthan harm, s o NIXIE. Nobody would take little Nixie Mark- ham for a herome,nor would one suppose that little quiet figure possessed nerve enough to saye hundreds of lives by her prompt action, but this was the way of it: It was & hot summer afternoon, and the most absolute quict reigned over the little rulroad station of Parkerstown, up in northern New England, on these swelte ing July days. Noteven the customary round, and only at tramn time was there any show of life The down-train due at 5:10, but until then, as the sensational writers say, “all was quict as the grave.”’ Nixie was the ion agent's daughter and only child. She was fifteen, although so small she looked three years younger, and was usually quiet as s mouse— ot much zip to her, as the country folks said. In spite of the current opinion, how ever, she had, except E 11 portion of time' which the little y town set apart for the school s . shent nearly I her tine in the ticket oftice. with her father, picking up letter by letter and word by word, the sounds of the Morse instrunient; and, tinuily, one day she tonished her fathier by taking a telc by sound, giving him Seopy.” I day Nixie w mstalled as telogr: crator, and the 1 father said “Nixie conid run !l as he could himself 2 that Mr richam w sidered by the boys *‘a_plug operetor,” might be ealled adoubtful compliment to Nixie, Well, this particular uafternoon we are alking about, the afores - tered into the depot with trouble cn- throned on his majestic brow., “Nick, 'm summoned on a jury case up in itre Village this afternoon. It's too late to get anybody here, even s'pos- ing there was anyvody to get. What are roing to do about ity S'pose you can "tend the concern alone until 1 get back probably by 62" " “1 guess so, father,” replied Nixie. “There be much of anythingto do. Likely there won't be many passengors for the down train this hot day, and 1 hope 1 know enough to sell a ticket or two if there ar “Weli, sec boxes go by ex- g nd in the wer—giess you'll gef U right” and off e went, leaying Nixie misiress of the situation —whieh phrase meuant n you might imagine, that very anc felt her newly-ncquired im- e somewhat and stepped briskly lusting the musty little oflice tering the few plantsin the win- dow, but there being absolutely nothing ul no one coming near, she drop- ped nto inaetivity and hstened to the click of the telegraph instrument, whieh to companionable as the talk of As the afternoon passed drowsily along the heat and stil ness r, and dropping her lon the desk before her, she s s0on—-as one of the good ladies of rkerstown wis wont Lo express it—'in wrms of Morphine.” A5, the first hing she could re- ihout it, & voi 1o come her dreams said left alone, and asleep, 100, ‘No,”? responded another evil voice, “the old man's probably ’'round some where—but,” in a lower tone, “cowe on, le go long. The down train ‘Il be along und we'll just lay 'em out.” Nixie was wide awake cnough now, but she had prosence of mind in’ her smiall body,and realized that safery luy in keep- ing still, How furisat up there*' Sht Keep mum. Do you want to knock the hull thing in the head, aund yoursclf too*" And then the girl ick- | ened henring ennght the sound of heavy | footsteps pussing by the window and on up the track sie waited until she couldn’t hear the footsteps and then cautiously turned and looked out of the window.” Ther they were—two miserable-looking tramps | hastening up the track. She recosnized them at once as two men who had” been discharged from a construction train that nad been at work down the re What should she do¥ O, 1f she could only send [ for her father! But there was no on | anywhere near, and, besides, he could get home it n » too late for it was ent the desper retehes were bent upon revenging themselves of their fancied wrongs wpon the nnocent She 100 ook Half past four! She out and looked around the lonely station. She eallea once, fecbly, but | what the user If she sent for her | father sie had no tangible explanation to sive or real renson to make him hurry flome--only she was sure there was harm coming to the down train-—-that long crowded express filled with mountain tourists. But she must do something The men had disapy d around slight bend i the track. Nixie ran in, ed up the ofli snatehed a hat from & nuil in the corner aud then hurried up the tr: until she arrived at the slight cuarve. Then she “made haste more slowly " for there were the men. Stop ping “behind a_clamp of bushes she | LIPTON - watched them. They had stopped and were doing something, she could not at first see what, to the track. Pretty soon up came a rail, and in a_minute more it was thrown down a_steep ledge within four feet of the track - where tho whole train mu. precipitated in less than an hour if something could not be done to warn them. Nixie saw it all now, and for & moment stood, her eyes dilated with horror, while she the scoundrels shake their fists toward her way and heard an imprecation. Then they passed on and Nixie, growing cold in the sudden extremity, turned and sped toward the depot. The rail had been removed on a curve which was shaded on the west side by a high bank so that at half past five it was quite dusk there, ana as the in always came inon a down grade they came full speed. So Nixie thought to her “I'm so giad 1 came, for now LIl hurry and telegraph to Stratford before the train comes by, and then we'll see, Mr, Lramps, how your little scheme comes out She reached the office and looked at the clock. Five minutes to fiye! and the tram left Stratford at 5:03. Well, cight minutes wa s than plenty of time it she conld se' Stratford. She grasped the ke " elicked the instru- ment, Never before was there so impa- tient an operator on that line. With her eyes on the clock, which seemed then, if ever, 1o say ‘forever--never—never. forever,” she kept up the call, Somebody on the other side “*broke her” twice, bt she gave all the danger signals she could think of and kept on The moments kept on-—-one, two, three, fonr, five-- slowly pealed the old clock—cach stroke an agony to the girl. Meanwhile the agent at Steatford could not operate 1, and the boy who served as gene hore-boy about the y . had gone for the cows, and there was no one to answer the call upon which g0 much depended A few minutes and it was too late, and Nixie was in anew dil; Nivie closed the key il not know the train signals, but se the red flag under the old desk and ran for dear life--Titerally_the dear life of her fellow-creatures. - Not until she got to the wreeked place did she remenmber that she must o beyond the curve 1o stop them or she would be of no us Iready she heard the approaching train rumble in the distance. Faster, faster she sped und the eurve straight on up the track. She could see them now coming in. On they rushed, the great engine bent on destroymg its precious freight. Nixie stopped in the midst of the track and frantically swung her red flag, but still the monsier rushed toward her, showing no abateraent of speed. Mcanwhile the engineer ard firemen had seen the slight form of the girl and the fireman stood aghast to sce the engineer so utterly regardless of her. “Stop, muan?’' he shouted; “don’t you sec the gir “Yes, " said the half-drunk engincer. “Why don’t the little fool get out of my way? D'l teach her,” and made no moyement to stop. Nixie waited with sinking heart--0, why did everything go against her? Wal it tne will of God taat this dreadful thimg must happen? The engine was elose upon lier and she ran upon @ jutting rock still waving her searlet flag= but just as the engine was alongside of her ‘she heard the sharp click of the eall-bell in the en gine und saw the fireman push the en- gineer aside and reverse the engine. The conductor, who had just scen her and ex- citedly pulled the bell-rope. jumped oft and came toward her. But the reuction was too mueh for poor N . and she could only gasp out: “Round the cury and then she was a white heap, with no ots rushed out, and, after some rve and seen what the vl had saved them from, no lady W could be so loy tedl upon as sh s when she h liftee into the car and told modestly little s some little time before the dy for the train to procced and, when Nixie got out at her own sta- tion, many kind hands pressed hers in farewell, and the conductor left some thing inber hand, oo, just as the train left, saying: “You are the brayest little woman in the state.” Not until she had been in the oflice a good half hour with her father, who had ot ome from his lawsuit and wonde what made the train late and where Nix had gone to, and told him all the story, did Nixic think to look at the preket. Then she read a note: “Will Miss Markham ept the accompanying from the friends she so bravely saved August 23, 1550 The nof s wrapped around $500 in 1! now you can pay off the mortizage on the house,” eried Nixic, and the father n 1 do The supermtendent of the Q. & L. rail road company came down to Parkers- town that we and soon thy wis o vaeancy in one of the best oflices of the company in a neighboring city and Mr. Markhain was tenc 1 the situation He epted, *so Nixie can have the schooling she wants =0 much,’ he said; and to-daiy Miss Eunice Markham is one of the most promising pupils in the high school of t city. But more than ever is she the pride of her father's heart, who never tires of tellin, the afternoon “his grir] was st But, after for a_heroin THE GREAT BERMAN FEMEDY FOB‘;UE.A.IN. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backachs, Huadache, Toothachi Bore Throat, Auwel Wuris, me AND ALL OTHER 1 8014 by Drugeiste and Deslors everywhore. Fifty Osutss m RLES A.VOGELER €0, Baltimore, M4, Absolutely Free from Opiates, Emetics and Poiscn, 4T DBUGGINTS AND DEALERS. FHE CHARLES & VOGELER 0O BALTINOIE, MU. wle Proprictore PLACE. Situated within 4 Dblocks of the Lip'on & Fowler packing houses, and within 8 blocks of the new B, & M. depot. All the lots are very fin>, Prices firom 5300 to $600 On Easy Terms Which will be worch double that amount within a year, making several hundred per cent profit on the cash invested, Lumber Yard .; A gplendid location for a whole- ale Tumber yard, as the R. R. company has 150 feet right of way each side the track, afford- ing excellent facilities for load- ing or unloading. Brick Yard. A fine opening for a brick yard adjoins the addition. otner & Archer's ADDITION, We also havea few choice lots left in Cotner & Archer's addi- tion.Have sold very rapidly, and are increasing in value every day. People are buying these lots for homes, consequently they will prove a good investment to any- body. We also have BARGAINS In all Parts of the City. or Improved and Unim- proved Rroperty. Call and see us hefore purchas- ing elsewhere, Baker Place Situated within 5 blocks of the Walnut Hill depot, on the Mili- ary road. Benson'’s street rail way will be completed and run- ning within 6 months, Prices from $300 to $500, One tenth cash, bal easy terms. These lots will be worth $500 as soon as the re running which are guaranteed to be running within 6 months, D. R, ARCHER AND C.H.SOBOTKER Room ) Rediek's Block, 1509 Farnam St,